MONDAY —23-Aug
Q. Who is the only
pitcher to win consecutive Cy Young Awards playing on a different team for each
one?
Hint: #1 He
is the youngest pitcher in the Expansion Era to reach 250 career victories.
Hint: #2 He
broke Cy Young’s record for the most seasons in a row with at least 15 wins.
Hint: #3 He
once pitched 72⅓ innings without issuing a walk.
A. GREG MADDUX [SABR Bio]
- Ans. Maddux
won his 1st CYA in 1992 playing for CHC. He won it again the following season, but on 02-Dec-1992,
he signed with ATL. He also won in 1994
& 1995, the first pitcher to win 4 in a row.
- #1 250th
W = 05-Jul-2001 (35 years, 82 days)
- #2 Young
had 15+ W for 15 straight years (1891-1905).
Maddux did it for 17 straight years (1988-2004)
- #3 72⅓
w/o a BB = 2001, the streak broken, ironically, by an IBB on 12-Aug-2001.
FCR - Jim Nelson, Port
St Lucie, Florida
Incorrect guesses: Pedro
Martinez, Roger Clemens, CC Sabathia, Justin Verlander, Gary Maddox, Mike
Mussina
TUESDAY —24-Aug
Q. Who was the last twentieth century pitcher to win
both games of a double header?
Hint: #1 He once surrendered home runs to both Ripken
brothers in the same inning.
Hint: #2 He was the pitching victory in Joe Torre’s
1,000th managerial win.
Hint; #3 He was on the mound the first time in MLB
history every opponent had an 0 for 3 day since a certain famous game in 1880.
A. DAVID WELLS [SABR Bio]
- Ans. W X2 = 17-Jul-1989(1) & 17-Jul-1989(2)
- #1 Ripken
HRs = 15-Sep-1990. He would be their teammate in 1996.
- #2 Torre’s
1,000th = 30-Apr-1997 In Seattle. Torre would win 1,326 more.
- #3 Perfect
G = 17-May-1998. 1st perfect with no documented
substitutions. The first perfect game
ever recorded was by Lee Richmond 12-Jun-1880. He also only faced only 9 discrete batters.
FCR - Laura Peebles, Arlington, Virginia
Incorrect guesses: Wilbur Wood, Wes Stock, Marino Rivera, David
Cone, Chien-Ming Wang
WEDNESDAY —225-Aug
Q. Who threw the first pitch in a major league
game in the state of Arizona?
Hint: #1 He had only recently returned from pitching
for Team USA in the BWC.
Hint: #2 He led the league in strikeouts in a
work-stoppage season, but with a total that might have led the majors in
many other years.
A. ANDY BENES [B-R Bio]
- Ans. 1st
ARI G = 31-Mar-1998. 1st pitch here. He
surrendered a single to COL’s Mike Lansing on the
second pitch of that at-bat.
- #1 Pitched
for team USA in the Baseball World Cup, the premier event of
the International Baseball Federation at the time, later to be replaced in that
respect by the World Baseball Classic.
- #2 Led
the NL in K in 1994 w/189, a total that would have led the entire
majors four times in the 1950s alone.
FCR - Tom Byrne, Old Greenwich, Connecticut
Incorrect
guesses: Randy Johnson, Willie Blair,
Nolan Ryan, Curt Schilling
THURSDAY —26-Aug
Q. Which Notre Dame grad and one-time Cleveland
Indian threw the first pitch in the New Comiskey Park?
Hint: #1 He was the only American League pitcher to
win at least ten games every year from 1990 to 1996.
Hint: #2 He had (has) a famous side-gig.
A. JACK McDOWELL [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Comiskey
II debut = 18-Apr-1991. Induced DET’s Tony Phillips to fly out to LF. Played for CLE in 1996—97. Attended Notre
Dame High School
in Sherman Oaks, California.
- #1 14,
17, 20, 22, 10, 15 & 13 1990—96.
- #2 McDowell
was front man for a group called Stickfigure.
Here’s a sample of their
work. I’ll let you guess the origin of
the group’s name.
FCR - Len Levin, Providence
Incorrect
guesses: Charles Nagy
FRIDAY —27-Aug
Q. Which Texan has four World Series rings, two
each from different American League East competitors?
Hint: #1 He appeared in nearly one hundred games for
the Baltimore Orioles.
Hint: #2 At one time, no other right-handed pitcher
had pitched in relief in more major league games.
Hint: #3 He attended university in Georgetown.
A. MIKE TIMLIN [B-R Bio]
- Ans. Born
in Midland Texas. Won WS w/TOR in 1992, 1993; won WS w/BOS in 2004, 2007.
- #1 Played
99 G for BAL in 1999 & 2000.
- #2 Pitched
in 1,058 G in his 18-season career. Only
4 were starts. Mariano Rivera later
passed him.
- #3 Attended
Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
FCR - Mark DeLodovico, Rockville, Maryland
Incorrect
guesses: Sidney Ponson, John Axford, Hoyt
Wilhelm
SATURDAY —28-Aug
Q. Who was the last White Sox pitcher to toss complete
games in consecutive starts in the twentieth century?
Hint: #1 He has the most victories of any of the twenty-five
alumni of the University of Miami who pitched in the majors.
Hint: #2 His teammates wore his uniform number on
their caps during their first World Series championship.
Hint: #3 Although he played for the United States in
the World Junior Championships, he later played for the Canadians.
A. ALEX FERNANDEZ [B-R Bio]
- Ans. CGs
= 21-Sep & 26-Sep-1995.
- #1 MLB
record = 107-87
- #2 FLA
won the 1997 WS and wore #32 on their caps because he was injured and not able
to play. He was still voted a full WS
share. He was out with a shoulder
problem, which hounded him until he retired in 2001.
- #3 Although
he had played in two seasons for CHW, he pitched for their AAA farm team the
Vancouver Canadians for 4 G in 1992. He played for the US Junior Team in the 1987 World Junior
Championships.
FCR - Jim Easton, London, Ontario
Incorrect
guesses: Mark Buehrle, Jack McDowell
SUNDAY —29-Aug
Q. Who was the first pitcher to retire more than forty
consecutive batters?
Hint: #1 His ratio of walks per inning pitched led
the league in his third full year in the majors.
Hint: #2 He pitched for his team the first time they appeared
in the postseason in the playoff era.
- Ans. Retired
41
straight batters 23-Aug & 29-Aug-1972. He broke the record of 38 set by Harvey
Haddix 21-May,
26-May-1959. The record was later tied by Bobby Jenks in
2007 then broken by Mark Buehrle in 2009 and again by Yusmeiro Petit in 2014.
- #1 Led
the NL w/1.76 BB/9IP in 1974.
- #2 Played
for SFG in 1971 NLCS.
FCR - Mark Kanter, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Incorrect guesses: Randy Johnson, Yusmeiro Petit, Don Drysdale, Tom Seaver, Greg Maddux, Orel Hershiser, Rick Wise, Luis Tiant
WEEKLY THEME – A
sampling of major league pitchers who have coached high school baseball teams after leaving the
majors.
Pitcher High School MLB Yrs WAR
Barr...................... Granite
Bay
(CA)....................................... 12............. 30.8
Benes................... San
Dieguito Academy (Encinitas, CA).... 14............. 31.2
Fernandez............ Various
(Broward & Palm Beach counties) 10............. 27.7
Maddux................ Bishop
Gorman (NV)................................. 23........... 104.8
McDowell............. San
Dieguito Academy (Encinitas, CA).... 12............. 27.8
Timlin................... Valor Christian (Highlands Ranch, CO).... 18............. 19.1
Wells.................... Point
Loma
(CA)*...................................... 21............. 53.6
*Pitcher’s Alma Mater
Others include
Bill Swift, Troy
Percival, Chad Bradford, Rob Murphy, Kerry Ligtenberg, Calvin Schiraldi
First
Correct Respondent to Identify Theme – Tom Byrne, Old Greenwich, Connecticut (after Timlin)
Incorrect theme
guesses:
Monday - Players
who began their MLB career as a pinch runner
Tuesday - All-Star pitchers who pitched for the Dodgers
and Padres
- All-Star
pitchers who pitched for both LAD & SDP, but weren't All-Stars for either
- Pitchers
to finish 3rd for the Cy Young Award twice
- Pitchers
40 or older who led league in walks per 9 innings
Friday - Pitchers
of record with same last name
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